Despite whisperings of slips, Valve's Doug Lombardi stated: "the release date is unchanged". Top news indeed; that's just over a month away, mathmatically challenged Freeman fans. In the meantime, we'll be running the first part of our interview with Mr Lombardi later today...

Time will tell... but it's suppose to be the easiest 3D engine to work with and mod. Good things will come. Counterstrike is so popular but HalfLife was a 90% redone Quake1 engine game. Can you imagine how good Counterstike on the HL2 engine will be?

Yea this is very good news. But, there are other sources that say it still isn't. Check out amazon, ebay, or gamestop. They all show different release dates. The whole mystery around this release date is very confusing. The publisher says it is pushed back and the Valve programmers say they never heard of it getting delayed.

Heh, the modders are already coming out in droves and the public SDK hasnt even been released yet. (although a few special people have it ) Check out this link for a current list of mods already being worked on. Of course, 90% of them will probably never even get to alpha, but the ones that do will hopefully be awesome.